THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4306, 14 December 1876, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

We take the following items from the ‘ Argus ’ telegrams and correspondence : Mr Manesty, Q C., will be the new judge iu the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court of Judicature, in the room of Mr Justice Quain. Reports are current that Lord Beaconsfield will not meet Parliament as first Lord of the Treasury, bnt as Lord Privy Seal. Sir Stafford Northcote will be first Lord, and Mr Ward Hunt Chancellor of the Exchequer. In c •Icbi atio.i of their wedding day, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, or the 6th inst., save a grand ball at the Mansion house. On the 9th, the Lord Mayor entertained 250 mayors and town clerks of the United Kingdom at a banquet; and on the 13th 200 gentlemen, representing the Bank of England, Lloyd’s Committee, the Stock Exchange, and the Commercial Sale-rooms, and the Baltic and new City Club. On the 25th, the leading members of the dramatic profession were filed.

Mr P. J. Smyth’s conduct, in separating himself from the Home Rule party, has been formally censured by the Roman Catholic clergy of Mulligar and Clare. MrPreece, telegraphic engineer, and Mr Fischer, of Loudon, have been deputed by the Postmaster-General to proceed to the United States to examine and report upon the American telegraphic system. Immense quantities of stores have been despatched from Deptford to Gibraltar and Malta. Sixteen 64-pouuder rifled guns have also gone to Malta for the fortifications.

The _ Gatling mitrailleuse is now being fitted in many of the vessels preparing for sea.

Recent a Ivicea allege that terrible atrocities have been committed by the armed forces of Transvaal, who are said to have butchered helpless Kaffir women and children, burned Kaffir kraals promiscuously, and desolatad the country. In these sanguinary excesses British subjects are accused of having taken part. The Boers deny these charges. The interposition of the British Government is earnestly invoked, and Sir J. Shepatone, Native Minister at Natal, has been authorised to arrange matters if possible. The leader of the murdering band is an old diamond-fields miner named Schliokman. The native chief Secocoeni, who defeated President Burgers, has intimated to the English that be intends to massacre the Dutch.

The blockade at Dahomey continues, The Niger expedition has had the effect of quieting the natives, and oil in large quantities is coming down to the coast, and trad® is brisk.

War has broken put at Aahantee, and K,ing Coffee Calcalli has boon defeated and taken prisoner by Mensaty. The Egyptian troops sent to Abyssinia are Buffering from an epidemic which caused great mortality. The Khedive has already Ipst two armies in this war.

The sentence of five years’ penal servitude, passed upon Count Anfim fdr alleged

treason and for calumniating the Emperor and Prince Bismarck, has produced a great shook throughout England. A formidable conspiracy has been discovered in Spain; 126 persons, including eighteen generals, have been arrested suspected of complicity. A rising had been planned in the interest of federalism, which was prevented by the seizure ef a letter at the frontier. Twelve out of fourteen vessels, forming the whaling fleet in Behring’s Sea, have been lost. I'he two remaining ships brought home some of the crews, but many have .perished. Our great places of metropolitan recreation are proving costly failures. The Sydenham Palace Company has long been insolvent. Bailiffs are now in possession of the Alexandra Palace, and the shareholders of the Royal Aquarium at Westminster hav6 just been told that LOO,OOO beyond the capital issued has been expended. • he Church Congress has been holding its sittings at Plymouth. Among the subjects discussed were the Bonn Conference and the Old Catholic movement, the cause and influence of unbelief, the best means to be used for the recovery of classes alienated from the Church, and how to increase the influx of young men as candidates for holy orders.

The claimant having committed a breach of prison discipline, has lost all his good marks, which will protract the period of his detention. Over 10,000 signatures have been appended to a clerical memorial on iutemperauce, including 11 bishops, 21 deans, 67 archdeacons, 49 canons, 173 honorary canons, and 145 prebendaries. The German corvette Augusta, 10 guns, has sailed for Australia, touching at Plymouth. The Baptist Union Conference has been held at Birmingham, extending over three days; and the autumnal meeting of the Congregational Union has taken place at Bradford, under the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Aveling, who, in one of his addresses, assured his hearers that Mr Henry Irving, the tragedian, was not his son, according to common report. * London, November 10. ‘The Times’ states that Sir Garnet Wolseley leaves the War Office and enters the Indian Council. General Sir Richard Airey has been raised to the peerage. The Turkish fortress of Medu, which had been blockaded for a month, has fallen. The garrison are prisoners of war, and the arms and ammunition have passed into the hands of the Montenegrins. The racing at Newmarket has been on the whole satisfactory. The fields have been large, but the wet weather on some days diminished the usual attendance. The October Handicap was won by Newport; St. Leger Stakes by Coltness ; and the First October Two-year-old Stakes by Chevron. The second October meeting commenced on 9fch inst., when the Royal Stakes were won by Allumete; the October Post Produce Stakes by Morgiana ; the Cesarewitch Trial Handicap by La Coureuse ; and the Burwell Stakes by Bruce. On the 12th eighteen horses started for the Middle Park Plate, the contest resulting in the victory of Count Lagrange’s Chamant, whobeatPellegarnoby a head, the latter having a wimT\ar advantage over Plunger. Lady Golightly, was the favorite at 2 to 1, but came in fourth. On the 13th the Newmarket Derby was won by Skylark, the Juvenile Handicap by Briglia, the Selling Stakes by Midlothian, and the Prendergast Stakes by Plunger. On the second day of the Houghton Meeting the Cambridgeshire Stakes were carried off by Roseberry, Hopbloom being second, and I Liris third. Thirty-two horses ran. Rose*l berry is the only horse that ever won the double event—the Cesarewitch and the Cambridgeshire.

The great Irish coursing meeting took place from the 17 th to the 20th inst. The r’rownlow (’up was won by Mr Hornsby’s Hematite, the Raughlan Stakes tfy Chanceshot, and the Derrymacasle Stakes by Serapis.

On the 19th a sculling match for L2OO was'pulled on the Thames between Tarryer and Brian. After a very close contest, and the quickest on record, Tarryer won the stakes.

Shortly before midnight on September 30 Weston, the American pedestrian, completed at Liverpool the great. task he had undertaken, he having walked 500J miles in six days.

The students of Cornell University, America, have resolved to challenge the winners of the next Oxford and Cambridge race to a four-mile contest on the-Thames for fours or eights, with coxswains. On the 30th September the second race for the two-mile swimming championship of England* took place from Putney to Hammersmith Bridge. Jones won by ten yards in 27min. 18sec.

The month’s obituary includes Mr 0. M'Garel, an extensive Irish land-owner,’ worth upwards of two millions sterling; Lieutenant-General Orr, and Mr Justice Archibald. . CONSPIRACY IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The aspect of affairs in Constantinople is disquieting in the extreme. There has been something like a panic agais among the foreign residents, not only in the .capital, but in all the provinces of European Turkey. There is a growing excitement; meetings are being held, and arms distributed. The most ominous fact is the discovery of a formidable conspiracy against the chiefs of the reforming party in the present Government. The Sultan is, on all hands, represented as a well educated man, anxious to learn, and giving up time to affairs, though too inexperienced to lead. The Softas and Ulemas are in commotion, and persons of high wmlr are • implicated. Among the former is Grand Vizier Mahoud Pacha, and among the arrested conspirators are the names of Prince Bezgdin, one of the most influential men, and also Hsmid.Pacha. ! Three high dignitaries have been degraded and sent away to the Island of Rhodes. It is alleged that the intention was to arrest the members of the Cabinet at the very moment of the arrival of General Tohemaieff at the Sultan’s palace. The movement in the^ capital was to be supported, by demonstrations in the provinces, where Dervishes are preaching a noly war. The details of the conspiracy, though formidable, are of less account than the undercurrent of feeling, which, though this outbreak maybe checked, is still gathering in strength. It is with alarm, therefore, that we hear at this crisis the report of another massacre of Christians. The Paris ‘Gaulois’ this week publishes a despatch from one of its correspondents, which alleges that 180 Christians have been massacred at Tamboli, a small town in Roumela, -near Adrianqple, containing only about 5,000 souls; so that it is feared nearly all the Christian inhabitants have been slaughtered in a body.

THE CONDITION OF BtXOXRIA. Accounts from Bulgaria agree that there is little improvement in the condition of that Province. Outrages still occur, The Turkish commission is a cruel mockery, the reconstruction of the ruined villages does not proceed. The money sent by Go? vernment for the relief of the sufferers is' diverted to other uses, Lady Strangford telegraphs from Philoppopolis that while the number of deaths has been exaggerated, the amount of distress is far beyond what was estimated. She thinks L 25.000 will scarcely suffice to feed and clothe the people through the winter. The Manstou-houft told has

rwohfd ftboat LI4OOQ. Two dildgftttf W6 on ft visit to oountiy to thank England for her sympathy and rep. coxir. All our later information from Bulgaria shows that, in spite of the professions of the Forte and the emphatic despatches of .Lord Derby, things are not greatly mend* ing. Mr MacGaban baa again visited the desolate districts. “The night I was in Batak," he says, “ I slept in a shed, and besides my ordinary warm clothing I had a sheepskin coat, but nevertheless I shivered with cold all night; but not to speak of men and women, I saw hundreds of children sleeping together like sheep, not only without sheepskin coats, but without their ordinary wearing apparel, having only one thin garment, oftennotreaching to their knees, and them legs being quite bare. Nobody oanfonn an idea cf the rapacity of the Turks without having seen these women and children, from whom they took everything. Scarcely a woman here wears her own clothing. Not only did the Turks take all their clothing and bedding before burning their hpnses, but every woman wearing good clothing was stripped naked, and many were even left without a chemise. What they wear new has been given thpm by charitable neighDors.” Notwithstanding repeated promises, the Government exacts tithes from these destitute, ruined inhabitants as though nothing had happened.

CONSPIRACY IN SPAIN. Spanish affairs are again attracting attention. A socialist conspiracy has been discovered, in which Senor Zorilla and Senor Salmeron are said to be implicated. An official note states that a letter of Senor Zorilla was seized on the frontier, ordering an immediate rising. Numerous arrests have in consequence been made, including several generals and deputies. The Carhsts meanwhile have gone to Rome, 9,000 strong, to plead their cause at the Vatican. Signor Canovas seems to be bidding for favor in the same quarter by the aggressive interpretations he has put upon the law relating to religious toleration. The remonstrances °L Rlr La >’ ard have tad no appreciable effect at Madrid. By the last declaration of the official ‘Gazette,’ the Government still refuse to let places of worship signify their character by advertisements or public in. scriptioß. Nonconformists must also give the authorities forty-eight hours’ notice before opening a chapel or- a cemetery. All Protestant schools must be legally disconnected from Protestant places of worship and the directors of them must be Spaniards who have taken academical degrees. Nor will noncofo mists be allowed to make anv public display of religious ceremonies, such as processions-only, if they fulfil all these conditions, will they be allowed to worship in peace. *